1908 All-America college football team

Official list of the best college football players of 1908 August 2022 25em 1908 All-America college football team border-top:#aaa 1px solid border-top:1px #aaa solid All-America college football team 1908 college football season border-top:1px #aaa solid 1906 1907 ← → 1909 1910 right horizontal Caspar Whitney 001.jpg 128 Caspar Whitney Walter Chauncey Camp portrait.jpg 140 Walter Camp 1908 Official All-America Selectors center The 1908 All-America college football team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1908 college football season. The only two individuals who have been recognized as "official" selectors by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for the 1908 season are Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney, who had originated the All-America college football team 14 years earlier in 1889. Camp's 1908 All-America Team was published in Collier's Weekly, and Whitney's selections were published in Outing magazine. Many other sports writers, newspapers, coaches and others also selected All-America teams in 1910. The Philadelphia Inquirer published a consensus All-America team based on the first-team All-America selections made by 25 football experts. Consensus All-Americans The only two individuals who have been recognized as "official" selectors by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for the 1908 season are Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney, who had originated the All-America college football team 14 years earlier in 1889. In its official listing of "Consensus All-America Selections," the NCAA designates players who were selected by either Camp or Whitney as "consensus" All-Americans.Football Award Winners National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) 2016 October 21, 2017 6 http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2016/awards.pdf Using this criterion, the NCAA recognizes 16 players as "consensus" All-American for the 1908 football season. The consensus All-Americans are identified in bold on the list below ("All-Americans of 1908"). All-American selections for 1908 thumb|130px|Hunter Scarlett of Penn. Ends Hunter Scarlett, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CON-1 [23]; ERB-1 [30]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; FC) George Schildmiller, Dartmouth (WC-1; CON-1 [18]; ERB-1 [23]; PI; TT; NYG; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; PT; PES; CIO; FC) Claude Fisher, Syracuse (NYW; FY; TJ; KCJ) Frank Dennie, Brown (WC-2; CSM; NHR) Lawrence Fairfax Reifsnider, Navy (WC-2) Harlan Page, Chicago (WC-3) Ronald D. Johnson, Army (WC-3) George Kennedy, Dartmouth (NYT; NHR; WH) Gilbert Goodwin Browne, Harvard (PP) Tackles thumb|130px|Bill Horr hurling the discus. Hamilton Fish, Harvard (WC-1; CON-1 [14]; ERB-1 [25]; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYT; BSU; BP; KCJ; PT; FC) Bill Horr, Syracuse (WC-1; CON-2 [9]; NYG; NYET; PD [g]; PES [g]) Percy Northcroft, Navy (WC-3; CIO) Dexter Draper, Penn (WC-3; CON-1 [13]; ERB-1 [25]; PI; TT; BSU; BP; PD; NHR; PP; PT; PES; WH; FC) Rudolph Siegling, Princeton (WC-2; CON-2 [11]; NYW-1; NYT; BP [g]; PD; TJ; PP; WH; CIO) Daniel Pullen, Army (NYW; FY; TJ; KCJ) Robert McKay, Harvard (CSM) Arthur Brides, Yale (NHR) Guards Hamlin Andrus, Yale (WC-2; CON-1 [13]; ERB-1 [18]; NYW; NYT; NYET; BSU; TJ; KCJ; PT; PES) William Goebel, Yale (WC-1; CON-1 [16]; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYT; PD; NHR; PP; WH; CIO; FC) Bernard O'Rourke, Cornell (WC-2 [t]; NYET; PES; WH [g]) Clark Tobin, Dartmouth (WC-1; CON-2 [12]; ERB-1 [28]; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYET; BSU; BP; KCJ) Samuel Hoar, Harvard (WC-3; NYW; TJ; PP) Francis Burr, Havard (PT) John Messmer, Wisconsin (WC-2) Forest Van Hook, Illinois (WC-3) Orlo L. Waugh, Syracuse (NHR) Edward Rich, Dartmouth (FC) Centers Charles Nourse, Harvard (WC-1; CON-1 [12]; NYG; NYT; CIO [g]) Germany Schulz, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (CON-2 [9]; ERB-1 [20]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; CSM; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; NHR; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES) Wallace Philoon, Army (WC-2; WH; CIO; FC) Joseph C. Brusse, Dartmouth (WC-3) Quarterbacks thumb|130px|Walter Steffen of Chicago Walter Steffen, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; FY; NYET; PD; NHR; KCJ) Ed Lange, Navy (CON-1 [12]; TT; NYG; BP; PP; WH; CIO) Allie Miller, Penn (WC-3; CON-2 [6]; ERB-1 [20]; PI; BSU; TJ; PT; PES; FC) Johnny Cutler, Harvard (WC-2; CSM; NYT) Halfbacks Hamilton Corbett, Harvard (CIO) Bill Hollenback, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CON-1 [21]; ERB-1 [30]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; NYG; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; FC) Frederick Tibbott, Princeton (WC-1; CON-1 [21]; ERB-1 [25]; NYW; FY; TT; CSM; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; NHR; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; CIO) Jim Thorpe, Carlisle (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; PI) Ernest Frederocl Ver Wiebe, Harvard (WC-2; CSM; NHR) John W. Mayhew, Brown (WC-2) Edward Gray, Amherst (WC-3) Fullbacks thumb|right|140px|Ted Coy of Yale Ted Coy, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CON-1 [24]; ERB-1 [30]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; NHR; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; CIO [e]; FC) George Walder, Cornell (WC-2; CIO; FC; PD [hb]) George McCaa, Lafayette (WC-3) Key NCAA recognized selectors for 1908 WC = Collier's Weekly as selected by Walter CampCamp's 1908 All-America Selections Reading Eagle November 26, 1930 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Th8xAAAAIBAJ&sjid=seEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4090,5070334&dq=horr+nourse&hl=enWalter Camp Football Foundation http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards// dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090330065940/http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards 2009-03-30 Other selectors CON = Consensus based on All-American teams selected by 25 football experts; number indicates how many of the 25 experts selected the individual as a first-team All-American; any player with at least 5 of 25 selections is listed hear as a second-team selection: CON-2"Consensus" All-American Football Team of 1908 The Philadelphia Inquirer 1908-12-20 ERB = Composite All-America team selected by E. R. Bushnell based on aggregating the opinions of 30 football critics; number indicates how many of the 30 critics selected the individual as a first-team All-AmericanThree Cinch All-America: Scarlett, Hollenback, Coy Picked by Thirty Critics Without One Dissent; Twenty of These Give Schulz His Position Detroit Free Press December 13, 1908 https://secure.pqarchiver.com/freep/access/1742958532.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+13%2C+1908&author=&pub=Detroit+Free+Press+(1858-1922)&desc=THREE+CINCH+ALL-AMERICA&pqatl=google https://archive.today/20130216160757/https://secure.pqarchiver.com/freep/access/1742958532.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+13,+1908&author=&pub=Detroit+Free+Press+(1858-1922)&desc=THREE+CINCH+ALL-AMERICA&pqatl=google dead February 16, 2013 NYW = New York World, selected by former Yale quarterback Tad JonesAnother All-American. Tad Jones of Yale Picks Best Football Team The Philadelphia Inquirer 1908-12-05 PI = The Philadelphia Inquirer, selected by FranklinFranklin "All American" Team Should Have Clever Placement Kicker: Thorpe Is Best Man The Philadelphia Inquirer 1908-12-06 FY = Fielding H. Yost, football coach of the University of Michiganhttps://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-dec-07-1908-3372044/ All-American Elevens Picked By Two Experts Syracuse Herald 12 1908-12-07 2022-08-12 NewspaperArchive TT = Tom Thorp, former star tackle and captain of ColumbiaTom Thorpe Thorpe Picks All American Eleven The Evening Telegram (Salt Lake city) 1908-11-30 NYG = New York GlobeMore All-American: The New York Globe Would Have Horr As Tackle Syracuse Herald 1908-12-04 CSM = The Christian Science MonitorSpalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1909 27 https://archive.org/stream/officialnational05nati#page/n15/mode/2up NYT = The New York TimesSpalding, p. 23 NYET = New York Evening Telegram BSU = Brooklyn Standard Union BP = Boston Post PD = Pittsburgh DispatchSpalding, p. 27 NHR = New Haven Register TJ = Tad Jones KCJ = Kansas City Journal PP = Philadelphia PressSpalding, p. 25 PT = Philadelphia Times PES = Philadelphia Evening Star WH = Washington Herald, selected by William Peet CIO = Chicago Inter-Ocean FC = Fred Crolius Bold = Consensus All-American 1 – First-team selection 2 – Second-team selection 3 – Third-team selection See also 1908 All-Southern college football team 1908 All-Western college football team References 2 All-America team Category:All-America college football teams